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Inkish TV - Call in the experts: internal staff or external consultants?

Inkish TV - Call in the experts: internal staff or external consultants? Calling in an expert can be the missing link to successfully find and implement the right tools or automation for your printing business. In this 10 to INKISH episode we address some of the major questions that arise. What is the extra value an external consultant can bring to the table? I really like the term external experts. Because it identifies what I think are the two value points. The first thing is that it is someon

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Jul 9, 2021 News

Four Pees Café - Generating bleed in the print process: Different ways and tools

You receive a PDF from the client and guess what: no bleed! It’s one of the most common mistakes printers encounter when receiving documents from clients and it does create the occasional headache. If a PDF has been created without bleed, or if the bleed is not sufficient, generating bleed out of page content is needed to avoid register problems. How to add bleed where there is none? In our last Four Pees Café before the summer holidays (yes, we do take holidays), Michiel Van den Saffele and Dav

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Jul 2, 2021 News

Four Pees Café - Distributed processing options - Dealing with production peaks

Like life itself, print production also has its highs and lows! Perhaps you want to start as small as possible because you’re a startup. Perhaps you need to automate preflight and you see you’re growing. Perhaps you have peak production moments you want to be able to handle… callas pdfToolbox can handle all of these situations with ease and it can grow with you from small to world-conquering. In this Four Pees Café, Christian Blaise and David van Driessche explain what your options are, both fro

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Jul 1, 2021 News

Inkish TV - Web-to-print: Do I need one?

Web to print is a hot topic and can be a game changer to the graphic arts industry. Is it just a hype?, Who it is for?, and why it is NOT “just another” sales channel… In a recent episode of 10 to Inkish , our CTO David van Driessche went a bit deeper into the topic.

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Jun 28, 2021 News

Four Pees Café - The wonderfully confusing world of creating imposed print sheets

Imposition, ganging, (true shape) nesting, step-and-repeat, sheet optimization… All of those terms are used by people when they talk about generating efficient print sheets. But often different people use the same terminology for different processes. And it’s even less clear which software you should use to solve what problems efficiently. In this Four Pees Café, David van Driessche and Michiel Van den Saffele dive into the terminology first of all, and then take a look at some of the different

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Jun 14, 2021 News

Four Pees Café - Workflows in your RIP Software: simple to complex

A lot of people use CalderaRIP in a lot of different ways. Its tools allow for manual handling and processing of files or fully automated throughput. You can simply RIP and print a file, or use the Nesting or Tiling modules to prepare small or very big files for print first. In this Café, we’ll show you some of these manual tools. But also how to get files into Caldera automatically using hot folders, connect a printer configuration directly to that as well, and even automate that into nesting.

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Jun 7, 2021 News

Four Pees Café - PDF Standards, which one do you use?

So you’ve done your best and learned about PDF, the PDF/X standards, the GWG specifications… Now what? Which of the many PDF/X standard versions should you use? Or should you rather use the GWG specification? And if so, which version of those? The amount of standards and specifications easily fills a dense forest. Which one do you start using? In this Four Pees Café our CTO David van Driessche and Director of Professional Services & Support Christian Blaise take you by the hand and through t

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May 28, 2021 News

Four Pees Café - Sheet optimization: how can you fully automate your impositioning? - A case study

How do you optimize media usage and impositioning? To fully automate impositioning, with little to no media waste is an enormous added value, but how do you do it? To discuss this, we are welcoming Arkadiusz Szymosz from PM Solutions to our Four Pees Café, who did just this at Polish printer Chroma.pl. Based on an initial demo installation, his solution could save them over 54.000 euro’s in only six weeks. During this Café he dives deeper into his solution and how a complicated process like impo

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May 25, 2021 News

Four Pees Café - What's up with color? - Color, and you

This Four Pees Café is the final episode of a new series of Cafés where color is the main theme. As usual the Café’s are meant to be introductions to certain applications or areas of knowledge, so we’re starting from scratch and building up to the current state of color management and how it works. Of course, all of the topics we discussed in our previous Café’s on color is meant to bring us to the typical color management workflow. Once we’re able to accurately describe colors and communicate t

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May 17, 2021 News

Four Pees Café - Web-to-print and MIS: can they play well together?

An important reason to implement a Web-to-print system is to reduce the administrative overhead and get correct prices to customers quickly. But how does that work if your products are defined in the MIS system and your price calculations are normally done there as well? Are you going to end up maintaining two disparate systems? In this Four Pees Café you will see how that can easily be avoided for the combination of Aleyant Pressero as Web-to-print system and Dataline MultiPress as MIS system.

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May 10, 2021 News

Four Pees Café - What's up with color? - Color, quantified

What is the best way to communicate about color? This Four Pees Café is the second episode of a new series of Cafés where color is the main theme. As usual the Four Pees Café’s are meant to be introductions to certain applications or areas of knowledge, so we’re starting from scratch and building up to the current state of color management and how it works. There are many ways to discuss color. We can for example use the Dutch term “appelblauwzeegroen” which translates to “apple-blue-sea-green”

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May 4, 2021 News

Four Pees Café - The advantage of pricing engines in web-to-print systems

Did you know that web-to-print systems help you save time with pricing calculations? Every printer knows that making complex price calculations is a time-consuming process. If you know that only a third of those calculations get turned into orders, a lot of time gets “wasted” that could have been used to create real added value to your company. What if you could automate this process with pricing engines of a web to print system? And what if those solutions were scalable? During this Four Pees C

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Apr 26, 2021 News

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